Articles – Scenes in the History of Dowsing
By Richard Benishai
Figure 1: 1556 and 1617 – looking for minerals and treasures
Figure 2: 1693 – looking for water and criminal
Figure 3: 1704 – looking for water with magnets
Figure 4: Mermet (a priest) 1866-1937
Figure 5: Popularity of dowsing, in Paris – 1900
Figure 6: Dowsing Congress – 1913
Figure 7: 1910 – in Algeria
Le disque Bourdoux
Dowsing Bonhomme
Figure 8: Applying dowsing to medicine..
All types of tools bring dowsing to recognition at the 1939 Congress, as a diagnostic and prescription tool